Combination pool ball rack and score board



July 17, 1934. I Hl HANSEN y 1,966,499

COMBINATION POOL BALL RACK AND SCORE BOARD Filed Decn 24. 1952 5 Sheets-Sheet l Inventor.'

ffezzzy Hansen Attorney July- 17, 1934. H. HANSEN 1,966,499

COMBINATION POOL BALL RACK AND SCORE BOARD Henry Hamer@ Inventor I`uly 17, 1934.

H. HANSEN COMBINATION POOL BALL RACK AND SCORE BOARD Filed UGC. 24, 1952 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Inventor; Henry Hameau;

Patented July 17, 1934 PATENT OFFICE COMBINATION POOL BALL RACK ND SCORE BOARD Henry Hansen, Los Angeles, Calif.

Application December 24, 1932, Serial No. 648,773

k13 Claims. (Cl. 23S-90) This invention relates to and has for an object the provision of a combination pool ball rack and score board by means of which, in addition to provisions for supporting the pool balls in rows,

separate registers are provided for the several rows of the rack by means of which the individual scores of the players are kept; and the total register of the number of games played is also provided for operative connection with the individual registersr so that upon the scoring of the necessary number of points to win a game the game'register willbe actuated correspondingly.

This invention contemplates also the provision of an alarm adapted to be automatically operated at the completion of a game for indicating to the proprietor or attendant in a pool room that a game has ended.

Another object is to provide a front closure for the rack with apertures sufficiently large so that the balls may be inserted therethru, together with means for supporting the balls at the rear of said apertures, and means for releasing all of the balls in all of the racks simultaneously at the completion of a game so that they may be collected in a suitable receptacle and arranged preparatory to another game. y

y A principal characteristic of my improved score board and vrack consists in so arranging the registers forthe several racks andvinter-connecting the same withthe operation of any one of the registers for scoring a number corresponding to a ball won by a player will not interfere with or actuate the other registers, `and yet when a total of 61 or more is scored by any player the registerof the winning player will actuate the total register for scoring the game ended and sounding the alarm.

'Ihe registers are so arranged that the scores of the players may be kept individually, or in pairs as when the game is played by partners.

Other objects may appear as the description progresses. K1

v In the accompanying drawings I have shown a preferred form of invention subject to modification within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit thereof. In

said drawings, y

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the assembled rack and scoreboard partially broken awayto show the interior thereof.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same partly in section. f

Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary section of one of the racks, as seen in Fig. 3, showing in detail means operable by the insertion of the balls in the rack for registering the points scored by the players; together with means for holding the balls in proper position in the racks.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged View of an actuator and associated parts adapted to be engaged by a ball for operating the associated register.

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary section of the rack on line 6 6 of Fig. 12 showing the game register and alarm'mechanism.

Fig. 7 is a sectional elevation of the same on line 7-7 of Fig. 6.

Fig. 8 isa fragmentary enlarged elevation on line 8-8 of Fig. 9 showing one of the registers and the operating mechanism therefor.

Fig. 9 is a fragmentary sectional elevation showing the several racks arranged one above the other and the register operating mechanism asso- I ciated therewith. 79

Fig. l0 is a fragmentarysectional plan of the rack on line 10-10 of Fig. l.

Fig. 11 is a section of the register operating mechanism as seen on line 11-11 of Fig. 8.

Fig. 12 is a sectional plan of the rack showing the series of registers mounted therein on line 12--12 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 13 is a sectional elevation of the rear portion of the rack.

Fig. 14 is'an enlarged transverse section of the game register operating shaft showing the means for connecting the several individual registers therewith.

My improved rack is substantially of conventional form and may be made of wood or metal, as may be desired or expedient.

The rack is of box-like form and includes a main front panel 1 and one or more narrower panels, as at 2 and 3, thereabove, which together constitute a front for the rack.

At the rear of the panel 1 I provide four parallel shelves4, 5, 6 and 7 arranged at uniformly spaced levels and inclined, as shown in Fig. l, from left to right. A back 8 is provided at the rear of the shelves 4, 5, 6 and 7 and inner and outer spaced walls 9 and 10 are provided rearwardly of the back 8 thereby providing inner and outer shallow compartments 11 and 12.

Rearwardly of the panel 2 a register compartment 13 is formed between horizontal partitions 14 and 15, the panel 2 forming the front of said compartment and the inner rear wall 9 extending upwardly to the top of the rack and forming the back thereof. The left hand end of the rack is provided with a .vertical compartment of rectangular cross section 16 which is open at the bottom and a basket or receptacle 17 is adapted to be suspended from the bottom of the rack, as by means of hooks 18 or the like below the compartment 16 for receiving the balls from the racks or shelves 4, 5, 6 and 7.

The front panel 1 is provided above and adjacent each of the shelves 4, 5, 6 and 7 with rows of apertures 19, 19 etc., of circular form and of slightly larger dia-meter than conventional pool balls 26, which are adapted to be inserted thru said apertures. Each of the shelves 4, 5, 6 and '7 may be designated on the face of the panel 1 by letters, as at A, B, C and D, or by numbers. Each rack is provided with a horizontal row consisting of fifteen uniformly spaced apertures 19, and numerals are provided at the top of panel 1 above each vertical row of the apertures which correspond to the numbers on the different pool balls and are designated from 1 to 15 inclusive.

The upper panel 3 may be provided with characters which correspond to the characters A, B, C and D opposite the respective racks 4, 5, 6 and '7 and immediately adjacent the characters on panel 3 apertures 2', 2 etc., are provided in the panel 2 behind which and within the compartment 13 a registering mechanism 21 is provided for each of the racks A, B, C and D. At one end of the compartment 13 and above the compartment 16 a register 22 is provided which is connected with the registers 21, 21 etc., for indicating the total number of games played.

Now referring to Fig. it Will be observed that the apertures 19 in panel 1 are substantially above the shelves 4, 5, 6 and 7 and I prefer to provide on the inner surfaces of panel 1 and back 8 and the upper surfaces of the shelves 4, 5, 6 and 7, inwardly projecting ribs 23, 24 and 25, respectively. Said ribs are so disposed with respect to each other that the pool balls, as at 20, when placed in the rack will loosely engage the edges or" the ribs and will serve to hold the balls centrally disposed in the racks.

In the upper forward corner of each of the racks A, B, C and D I provide a longitudinal shaft 26 which is suitably mounted on the rear side of the front panel l, as by means of brackets 27. or" the shafts 26 has an 28 fixed thereto at one end, and adjacent of each of the apertures 19 in the panel 1 said shafts are provided with collars 29 which are fixed thereto. Adjacent said collars actuators 30 are loosely held on the shafts 26 and depend slightly below the margins of the apertures 19 so as to engage the balls 20 as they are inserted in the racks thru said apertures.

It will be understood that the pool balls 29 are numbered consecutively from 1 to 15, and that each player scores the number or" points indicated by the particular balls Won by him. Accordingly, the registers 21 are arranged so that they may be operated from one to fteen points at an operation to correspond to the points scored. The actuators 30 are, therefore, so connected with the fixed collars 29 on shafts 26 that while the actuators are operated to a common extent by all balls placed in the rack the shafts 26 and arms 28 will be operated only to an extent which corresponds to the numbers on the balls placed in the rack. Thus the shafts 26 and arms 28 vary in their movement from one to fteen points. Y

As shown in Fig. 5, the collars 29 may be provided with extended pins 31 adapted to engage shoulders 32 cn the actuators 30. As shown in Fig. 5, the connection between the collar 29 and actuator 30 is such that the shaft 26 will be operated to a maximum extent, as for scoring a 15 ball. The position of the pins 3l in the collars is varied to correspond to the particular ball adapted to be inserted thru the aperture 19 with which a particular collar 29 and actuator 30 is associated. Thus with the actuator shown as in Figs. 4 and 5 in normal position for actuation by the balls 20, if a 10 ball is inserted thru the aperture 19 adjacent said actuator 30 the pin 31 will be positioned ve points to the leit of its position as shown in Fig. 5, so

that the actuator 30, when engaged by the ball 20, may move for a distance to correspond to five points on the register without rotating shaft 26, but when moved for such a. distance the actuator will then engage pin 31 and when the ball 20 is completely inserted in the rack the shaft 26 and arm 28 will have been moved for a distance to correspond to ten points on the register. Thus the differential between the actuators 30 corresponds to the numbers shown on panel 1 above the vertical rows of apertures.

Each of the registers 2l is provided with a vertically slidable bar 33 (see Figs. 4 and 13) which is mounted Within the inner compartment 11 of the rack, and is supported on the Wall 8 in guides 34, 34. The lower ends of said rods carry compression springs 35 which are conned between the lowermost guides 34 and nuts 36 on the lower ends of said rods. Springs 35 thus serve to normally hold the rods downwardly in their lowermost positions, as shown in Fig. 4.

Rods 33 carry pins 33 which are engaged by the extremities of the arms 28 associated with the shafts 26. As shown in Fig. 13, the rods 33 are of varying length and occupy different positions longitudinally of the rack corresponding to the positions of the registers 21, 2l etc. with which they are associated. The rods 26 are longitudinally movable in their guides corresponding to the movement of shafts 26, arms 28 and the number of points to be scored at each operation.

Within the compartment 13 the registers 21, 21 etc., are commonly mounted on a single longitudinal shaft 37 which may be rotated manually at one end of the rack by means of a knob or iinger grip 38. Said shaft is rotatably supported in a plurality of brackets 39, 39 etc., which are mounted on the wall 8 of the cabinet. Each of the registers 21, as shown in Fig. 12, includes a unit numbering wheel 40, and a tens numbering wheel 41 with suitable internal mechanism for actuating the wheels 41TH; of a revolution at each completed revolution of the wheels 40.

Any commercial type of registering mechanism may be employed for the purpose of this invention, and the details thereof are not material to my invention.

I prefer to provide the unit wheels 40 with extended hubs 42 to which gears 43 are suitably secured. One of the bracket members 39 of each of the registers 2l is provided with an idler gear 44 supported on a bolt or pin 45 and meshing with the gear 43. The upper extremities of the rods 33 for each of the racks A, B, C and D are provided with racks 46 having gear teeth formed thereon and adapted to mesh with the gear 44 of the corresponding register 2l. Thus motion is communicated to the registers 21 from the actuators 30 so that as the balls 20 are placed in their proper positions in the rack the registers associated with the several racks will be operated to an extent corresponding to the value of the balls deposited in the rack.

'I'he registers 21 may be of any suitable type, of which there are several commercial types on the market, as for instance thel Veeder type of register which embodies internal mechanism for transferring motion from the units to tens, tens to hundreds, etc., progressively, and also for resetting the Wheels. No particular type of register is essential to the successful operation of my mechanism. f

Within the register compartment -I provide a longitudinal counter-shaft 47 which is rotatably supported in the brackets 39 and is provided adjacent each of the registers 21 with a loose gear 47' of the character shown in Fig.V 14. Each of the gears 47 is associated with a disc 48 attached to the hub 42 of the unit numbering wheel 40 associated with the register 21 of that particular unit.

It will be noted that gear 47 has seven teeth, six of which, as at 49, are uniformly spaced and are mounted in a plane offset from the other tooth which occupies, however, the seventh position, and is on a radial line uniformly spaced between the radial lines of two of the teeth 49` Moreover, the tooth 50 is more remotely positioned relative to the axis of shaft 47 than are the teeth 49. As shown in Fig. 11, the discs 48 are each provided with pins 51 and 52 which project from opposite sides thereof, and the pins 51 are slightly nearer the axis of the shaft 37 than are the pins 52. The pins 52 are adapted to engage the teeth 49 of gear 47' at the completion of each revolution of the unit wheels 40 of the registers, and are so positioned that the gears 47 will be actuated one point as the unit wheels 40 move from 9 to 0". Thus six consecutive movements of each of the gears 47' may be effected by their respective registers, rand said movements will have accomplished the movement of the tens wheels 41 so as to read 6. The pins 51 and 52 being spaced apart on the disc 48 when any one of the wheels 41 has been advanced tothe sixth position any score following such operation will effect the movement of the associated wheel 40 to the extent of one or more points, thereby causing the pin 51' in the disc 48 of `such register to engage the extended tooth 50 of' gear 47 for registeringy 1 on the total register 22.

The gears 47 are differentially connected, however, with the shaft 47 in order to make it possible to actuate the shaft 47 by any of the registers 21 without affecting the operation of the other registers. To this end the gears 47' are provided with internal recesses 53 having a single inwardly projecting tooth 53 and the shaft 47 is provided within the recess of each' of said gears 47 with a collar 54 fixed to said shaft and having a retractable pawl 55 kheld therein against the tension of a spring 56.

The pawl 55 is normally extended so as to be engaged by the tooth 53 on gear 47. When all of the registers are in normal positions, as when the registers are reset to 0, the teeth 53 of gears 47 will engage all of the pawls 55 of collars 54.

It will be understood that the shaft 47 is operated only at the completion of a game, i. e., when 61 or more points are scored by a player. Accordingly, the discs 48 serve to advance'the gears 47' on shaft 47 one point only for each revolution of the unit wheels 40, and the first of the registers 21 operated to score 61 or more will effect the operation of the game register 22 by reason of the engagement of the pin 51 on the disc 48 of such register with the tooth 50 of the associated gear 47 Thus the arrangement of gear 47 is such that the shaft 47 may be operated by one of the gears 47' so as to advance the pawls 55 of the other gears 47 one point at a time in a counter-clockwise direction, as seen in Fig. 14 away from the teeth 53' in said other gears, but when the score registered by the first mentioned gear exceeds that previously registered its tooth 53' will catch up with and engage its pawl 55 for further advancing the shaft 47. While the registers 21 each have but two wheels 40 and 41, due to the fact that it is only necessary to register 61 points, or less than 99 points thereon, the register 22 is provided with four or more wheels 57, 58, 59 and 60, respectively, representing units, tens, hundreds, and thousands.

The wheels of the register 22 are mounted on a shaft 61, and the unit wheel 57 has secured thereto a star wheel or gear 62, as shown in Fig. 7, adapted to be engaged by a pin or other tooth 63 on a disc 64 which is secured to the end of shaft 47. Thus, at each complete revolution of shaft 47 the unit wheel of register 22 is advanced le of a revolution for scoring the successive games. The gear 62 may be provided with a detent including a roller 64 carried on the end of an arm 65 which is loosely supported on shaft 47 and is held in engagement with gear 62 by means of a spring 66.

In a similar manner detents 67 may be provided for each of the gears 47.

The shaft 47 is provided with a detent 68 which consists of an arm loosely held on shaft 37 and adapted to engage a gear or ratchet 69 on shaft 47. The detent may be held in frictional engagement with the gear 69 by means of a spring 70 (see Fig. 11). The gears 69 and 47 have a corresponding number of teeth.

It will be noted that the unit wheel 57 of register 22 is provided adjacent gear 62 with a cam surface 71 opposite each of the digits thereof. Said cams successively engage a roller 72 attached to a bell crank 73 which is hingedly mounted at 74 on the top of the cabinet. Said bell crank has a flexible arm 75 extended therefrom with a clapper 76 on its end adapted to strike an alarm bell 77 which is suitably mounted on a panel 3 at the top of the cabinet. The roller 72 is yieldably held in engagement with the cams 71 successively by means of a tension spring 78 connected at its opposite ends with the bell crank 73 and pin 79 depending from the top of the cabinet.

The panel 1 is provided with an aperture 80 opposite the register 22 thru which the register is visible. Shaft 61 which supports register 22 carries a shutter 81 which has inwardly bent extremities 82 and 83 which are oscillatably held on shaft 61 and a longitudinal bar 84 connecting said extremities and movably disposed in the cibinet relative to the aperture. The bar 84 of the shutter may have the word Game or other suitable legend thereon so that when a game is scored on the register and the shutter drops into position before the aperture the conclusion of a game will be indicated thereby.

A yieldable finger 85 of spring material is secured to the shutter 81 and extends upwardly from said bar for frictional engagement with the depending portion of the bell crank 73. Thus, A

while a game is in progress the shutter is held in its uppermost position above the aperture by the rictional engagement oi linger with bell crank 73.

When, however, a game is completed and it is registered on the register 2, the units wheel 57 of said register will have advanced oneof the cam sectors 71 into engagement with the roller 72 of the bell crank 'hereby releasing the ringer 85 and permitting the shutter to4 drop downwardly behind the aperture 30. f

The aforesaid movement of the bell crank 73 also tensions the clapper 75 so that when roller 72 has dropped from the cam sector 7l with which it was engaged the clapper 76 will forcibly strike the bell 77 by reason or" the tension or^ spring 79. Thereupon the shutter may be restored to normal position, as hereinafter described.

By reference to Figs. 1, 4, 9 and 10 it will be noted that each of the iaclrs A, B, C and D is provided with a longitudinal shaft 85 which has fixed thereto an arm S7 for each or" the ball positions associated with said shaft. The arms 87 are positioned immediately below the shelves 4, 5, 6 and 7 and have arcuately formed upwardly extended portions 8b which entend thru openings 89 in said shelves and sufficiently above the up per surlaces of the shelves, as shown in Fig. 4, to prevent the movement or the balls downwardly over the inclined shelves trom their normal positions in the racks. One or" the arms 87 in each of the racks A, B, C and D is provided with a rearward extension 87 and the extensions 87 from each of the racks are pivotallyl connected at points 90 with a vertical rod 91 which is slidable in bearings 92 on the wall 9 of the cabinet.

A compression spring 93 is tensioned between one or" the bearings 92 and a set collar 94 on rod 91 for normally holding rod 91 in its lowermost position and the arms 87 in their uppermost positions. The shafts 85 of the racks A, B, C and D are thus operatively connectedtogether so that when the rod 91 is moved upwardly all of the arms 87 will be depressed so as to remove the portions 8S thereoi:` from interference with the balls 2t, thereby permitting the balls to roll down the inclines and into the compartment 16.

The bottom 9a oi compartment 16 is provided with a circular aperture 95 slightly larger in size than the balls 20, and a sliding plate 9S is mounted beneath the bottom 94 and is provided` with an opening 97 corresponding in size to the opening 95. The plate 96 is normally mounted so that the opening 97 therein will be out of registration with the opening 95 and is so held by means of a compression spring 98 wi ich is cairied on a stem 99 from the plate 95. As shown in Fig. 10, the sp-og 98 may be held in compression between a collar 190 on the stem 99 and a partition 101 thru which the stem extends.

The lowermost of shafts 85 is arrmiged for connection with the sl i ate 95 so that when the plate is force rdly by exerting pressure on an external grip 10 extending outwardly from the plate all o the inter-connected shafts 86 and arms 87 the 1ecn be retracted to permit the release of the balls from the racks.

To this the inner end oi" stem 99 is provided with earn 10S hav n g v a diagonal surface adapted to be engaged a roller 104 on the lower end of an arm 305 is xed to the shaft 86 below the shelf 7. The arm 105 has a sector 106 which meshes witha sector 107 on a rearwardly projecting arm 108 which is pivoted at 109 on a bracket 110 attached to the wall 8 of the cabinet. Arm 108 is pivoted at 111 to a vertical rod 112 which extends upwardly in the cabinet to a position adjacent the game register 22 and is slidably held in a guide 113 at its upper end. One of the arms, as at 83, of the shutter 81 extends thru the wall 8 of the cabinet and has its end adjacent the rod 112 above which a set collar 11a is provided on said rod.

Thus the movement of the plate 96 inv-.iardly will swing shaft 86 in a clockwise direction, as seen in Fig. 4, thereby oscillating arm 10B in a counter-clockwise direction and moving rod 112 downwardly. The game having been previously completed, the shutter 81 will have dropped into position behind the aperture 80 and its rear extremity will have been raised into a position or" engagement with the collar 114 on the uper end or rod 112. Thus when the plate 96 is forced inwardly and the rod 112 is moved downwardly the engagement of collar 114 with the portion 115 of the shutter will restore the shutter to its normally upward position, as shown in Fig. 7.

When the plate 96 is forced inwardly to the position shown in Fig. 10, the aperture 97 thereon is out of registration with the aperture 95 in the bottom 94 of the cabinet and the balls may be dropped into the basket or receptacle 17 only by retracting the plate 96 so as to bring the apertures 95 and 97 into registration in order that the balls may drop therethru.

In operation two or more people may play the gaine of pool, as is customary, and if less than yfour play each of the players may choose one of the racks A, B, C or D, or if two play as partners one of the racks may be chosen for each set of partners. 1t is understood that in rotation pool the balls are numbered from l to 15 consecutively and have values corresponding to the numbers thereon. The total possible number of points in a game is 120. The player or partners win who make a majority of the number of points. Thus a game is won when 6l or more points are scored.

As the balls are Won by the playe 's they are deposited in the racks of the players winning them by inserting the balls thru the numbered apertures which correspond to the numbers on the balls won. Each of the actuators 30 is set so that the register associated with thc particular rack will be moved for a number of digits corresponding to the number of points represented by the ball placed in the aperture 19 associate-:l

with that particular register. Thus all the players or different sets of partners may register on their respective registers the total number of vpoints made and the score of each player is clearly visible to all of the players thruout a game.

As hereinbefore described, the differential connections between the several registers and the shaft 47 which operates thegameregister aresuch that whenever the wheels 4G and 41 on any one of the registers 21 indicates a total score of 61 or more the game register 22 will add one to the number of games registered thereon and drop the shutter 81 behind the aperture 80 and simultaneously therewith ring the bell 77 to call the attention of the proprietor or attendant to the fact that a game has been completed.

Following the alarm the attendant may operate the plate 96 for releasingall of the balls in the several racks and the same are collected in the receptacle 17 preparatory to another game.

`An' additional aperturefl may be provided on the front` of the cabinet for the reception of a cue ball, together with a compartment20' within the cabinet so that when all of the balls of the several players are in the racks and no game is in progress the balls maybe held irremovably inthe cabinets. The cue ball may be released from its compartment by one of the members 87 connected with the shafts 86, as in the racks for the other balls.

The front of the compartment 16 may be provided with a blackboard panel 116 on which inividual records of games won may be kept by repeating players.

It is desirable, as indicated in Fig. 1, to so arrange the racks A, B, C and D and the apertures 19 with respect thereto that the balls, when deposited in the racks, may be partially visible thru the apertures so as to serve the dual purpose of indicating the presence of the balls in their proper positions, and to further prevent the deposit of other balls at the same positions.

What I claim is:

l. A pool ball rack and score board comprising a cabinet arranged with a plurality of compartments for separately supporting the balls of different players, a register associated With each of said compartments, and means operable thru the act of placing the balls in the compartments for respectively tallying the values of the balls on the registers, for indicating the accumulated scores of the players.

2. A pool ball rack and score board as characterized in claim 1, including a supplemental register, and means operatively connecting said supplemental register with the individual registers whereby when a winning score is indicated on any of the individual registers the supplemental register is operated for tallying a completed game thereon.

3. A pool ball rack and score board comprising a cabinet arranged with a plurality of ball receiving compartments for different players, score indicating registers associated with said compartments, respectively, a panel forming a closure for the front of said cabinet and provided with rows of apertures opposite each of said compartments and numbered to correspond to the values of the different balls of a set, and means in said compartment adjacent each of said apertures engageable with the balls when they are moved thru the apertures into the compartments and operatively connected with said registers, for tallying the values of the balls on the score registers.

4. A pool ball rack and score board of the character described in claim 3 including a supplemental game register, and means connecting said score registers and said game register whereby when a winning score is tallied on any of the score registers the game register operates for tallying successive games thereon.

5. A pool ball rack and score board as characterized in claim 1, including means for retaining the balls in positions in the several compartments corresponding to their numerical values until the completion of a game and operative at such time for releasing the balls for collection preparatory to another game.

6. A pool ball rack and score board as characterized in claim 3, including means for retaining the balls in positions in the several compartments corresponding to their numerical values until the completion of a game and operative at such time,` for releasing the balls'for collection preparatory toA another game.

"1. A- pool ball rack and score board comprising a cabinet-arranged with a plurality of ball receiving compartments for the dilerent players i correspondingly subdivided into a plurality of ball positions differently numbered to correspond to the number and value of the balls to be held therein, a score register associated with each of said compartments, a front panel forming a closure for the compartments and provided With rows of apertures opposite each compartment, said apertures corresponding in position to the ball positions, and means including actuators adjacent each of said apertures engageable by the balls for tallying the values of the balls on the score registers as the balls are inserted in said apertures.

8. A pool ball rack and score board of the character described in claim '7, including a game register operatively connected with said score registers, and operable thereby when any of the score registers indicates a winning score, for tallying the games played on the game register.

9. A pool ball rack and score board of the character described in claim 7, including means at each of the positions in each of said compartments for retaining the balls in the positions in which they have been placed until the completion of a game, and manually operable devices connected with and for simultaneously releasing said ball retaining means at the close of a game to permit the collection of the balls preparatory to another game.

10. A pool ball rack and score board comprising a cabinet arranged with a plurality of ball receiving compartments for the different players correspondingly subdivided into a plurality of ball positions diierently numbered to correspond to the number and value of the balls to be held therein, a score register associated with each of said compartments, a front panel forming a closure for the compartments and provided with rows of apertures opposite each compartment, said apertures corresponding in position to the ball positions, and means including actuators adjacent each of said apertures engageable by the balls for tallying the values of the balls on the score registers as the balls are inserted in said apertures, the score register of each of said compartments being commonly connected with all of the actuators of the associated compartment, said actuators arranged to actuate the registers only to the extent of the values of the balls deposited in the compartments.

11. A pool ball rack and score board comprising a cabinet arranged with a plurality of ball receiving compartments, means dening the positions of the balls therein to correspond to the numerical values of the balls, actuators engageable by the balls at each of the ball positions, a primary operating member at each compartment commonly connected with all of the actuators of each compartment so that said operating member will be moved at each operation to correspond to the values of the balls deposited at diierent operations, a score register associated with each compartment, and a secondary operat-` ing member for each compartment connecting the primary operating member of each compartment with the corresponding score register, whereby the accumulated scores of the several players may be tallied on the score registers to correspond to the values of the balls Won by the players, respectively.

12. A pool ball rack and score board as characles positions in all of said compartments for retaining the balls in numerical positions until the completion of a. game, and manually operable devices connected therewith for releasing all of the balls simultaneously for collection prepara.- tory to another game.

HENRY HANSEN. 

